The advantage of iron-on patches is basically that you don’t need glue to keep them affixed while you sew. But you do need to sew.

Another advantage, by the way, is that you don’t need to zig-zag stitch the edges of the patch to stop them from fraying when you cut out the shape you want. Saves some effort.

Soooo… Any Magisk module that allows one to bypass this?

I did not know about this line of phones, very interesting!